Free Palestine

Last Sunday I attended a rally and march in Liverpool calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the terrible bombing and destruction which has cost so far an estimated 9,061 Gazan lives. Of these 3,760 are children. Of course, I condemn the attacks on Israelis by Hamas, but the Israeli response has been disproportionate and amounts to war crimes which include, collective punishment, the use of phosphorous bombs, and the denial of food water and energy to a population of two point two million, half of whom are children. 

We met up at the bombed out church in Liverpool

The March started off down Bold Street

The march was full of energy with people chanting 'ceasefire now!', 'free Palestine' and 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free'. I'd estimate the crowd to be about two and a half to three thousand people. Not as big as the London demo the day before - which attracted half a million protestors - but nonetheless significant and satisfying.

Sadly but predictably, Zionists have been claiming that 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free' is an antisemitic chant - it isn't. It's a call for the only solution - a one-state solution where Palestinians and Jews can live together in peace.

How long this horror will continue, I don't know. I pray it will end soon. One thing I know for sure is that it won't bring an end to Hamas or Palestinian resistance to the racist, apartheid state of Israel which has been involved in the oppression and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948.